Comments on: Detainee Policyhttp://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/06/detainee-policy/
The latest Politics news and blog posts from ABC News contributors and bloggers including Jake Tapper, George Stephanopoulos and more.Sat, 21 Feb 2015 19:31:01 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1By: MarkLeavenworthhttp://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/06/detainee-policy/#comment-367139
MarkLeavenworthSun, 14 Jun 2009 06:10:17 +0000http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/06/detainee-policy/#comment-367139...for stability AND continuous individual opportunity for property.
…for stability AND continuous individual opportunity for property.
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MarkLeavenworthSun, 14 Jun 2009 06:06:05 +0000http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/06/detainee-policy/#comment-367137Planning and zoning, and a financial policy regime are the minimum requirements for a stable system, apart from the enforcement, which they already do well. There's no reason they can't maintain a high moral standard with those minimums for stability.
Planning and zoning, and a financial policy regime are the minimum requirements for a stable system, apart from the enforcement, which they already do well. There’s no reason they can’t maintain a high moral standard with those minimums for stability.
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MarkLeavenworthSun, 14 Jun 2009 06:00:21 +0000http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/06/detainee-policy/#comment-3671341776- It means they can't have sex until they're married, and they can't get married without a house, and they can't get a house without decent zoning plans and financial infrastructure. And there is a real problem getting decent financial infrastructure to jive with some of the clerical interpretations of Islam. So they either take to the streets or make little rocks out of big rocks. Human Energy. We are all natural animals as well as human beings. Oh, and they can't drink either, so that's out for a tranquilizing option. I think solutions agreeable to even the most conservative clerics can be found for all of these difficulties in keeping with Islam. I hope they take some of our future possible (hopefully creative and wise) suggestions at least into consideration.
1776- It means they can’t have sex until they’re married, and they can’t get married without a house, and they can’t get a house without decent zoning plans and financial infrastructure. And there is a real problem getting decent financial infrastructure to jive with some of the clerical interpretations of Islam. So they either take to the streets or make little rocks out of big rocks. Human Energy. We are all natural animals as well as human beings. Oh, and they can’t drink either, so that’s out for a tranquilizing option. I think solutions agreeable to even the most conservative clerics can be found for all of these difficulties in keeping with Islam. I hope they take some of our future possible (hopefully creative and wise) suggestions at least into consideration.
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1776Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:36:56 +0000http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/06/detainee-policy/#comment-367132I am far from a cultural expert on Iran, but there seems to be a sizable segment of the population, at least around the urban areas, a movement for more individual rights and freedoms, I don't know how that affects the religious and cultural aspects of those involved, when people take to street en masse, it means something, especially when they take to the streets against a repressive regime.
Hopefully, the rest of the world will learn more about what's happening there as time goes by.
I am far from a cultural expert on Iran, but there seems to be a sizable segment of the population, at least around the urban areas, a movement for more individual rights and freedoms, I don’t know how that affects the religious and cultural aspects of those involved, when people take to street en masse, it means something, especially when they take to the streets against a repressive regime.
Hopefully, the rest of the world will learn more about what’s happening there as time goes by.
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MarkLeavenworthSun, 14 Jun 2009 05:25:35 +0000http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/06/detainee-policy/#comment-3671291776- I think you're right that this election will guide the future of old and young in Iran for some time to come. But on the brutality...I just saw a clip of British police clearing Iranian protests from in front of the Iranian embassy in London that looked as brutal. And many of the Iranian police looked like they were getting the worst end of the stick. MY God, that wouldn't happen here if riots like that broke out. I'm a fan of law and order and a fan of individual spirit and initiative. IT looks to me like Iran is rich in both, and with a little western infrastructure, they should be excelling together instead of in conflict. But I guess they're not the only ones that are easily divided, left and right.
1776- I think you’re right that this election will guide the future of old and young in Iran for some time to come. But on the brutality…I just saw a clip of British police clearing Iranian protests from in front of the Iranian embassy in London that looked as brutal. And many of the Iranian police looked like they were getting the worst end of the stick. MY God, that wouldn’t happen here if riots like that broke out. I’m a fan of law and order and a fan of individual spirit and initiative. IT looks to me like Iran is rich in both, and with a little western infrastructure, they should be excelling together instead of in conflict. But I guess they’re not the only ones that are easily divided, left and right.
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1776Sun, 14 Jun 2009 05:13:51 +0000http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/06/detainee-policy/#comment-367127Iran now has to be concerned more than ever with it's own people, the public perception there that the election was fixed, and the brutal response of the police to their own citizens will never go away, they sow the seeds of their own revolution.
Iran now has to be concerned more than ever with it’s own people, the public perception there that the election was fixed, and the brutal response of the police to their own citizens will never go away, they sow the seeds of their own revolution.
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MarkLeavenworthSat, 13 Jun 2009 23:47:20 +0000http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/06/detainee-policy/#comment-367125Anyway, Lord willing those youthful energies will find their way into constructive activity before too long, and a new engagement with the leadership will help, rather than prevent, that process.
Anyway, Lord willing those youthful energies will find their way into constructive activity before too long, and a new engagement with the leadership will help, rather than prevent, that process.
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MarkLeavenworthSat, 13 Jun 2009 22:22:31 +0000http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/06/detainee-policy/#comment-367122Nope, nothing worth responding to. Just some more insane contradictions (Mousavi is not a moderate, but the Ahiatolla endorses Ami-Nejad anyway...wacko clerics...to think otherwise goes beyond stupidity...etc). I wouldn't mind your contradictions, Terry, but the fact that they continue to make our headlines look like the basket-case babblings of hell-bent militant psychosis, and are creating a conflict with our administration's stated objectives and global interpretations of our willingness to work openly makes your kind of thinking a little too influential at the moment. I suppose the kids on the streets in Iran might recognize that they're being used against their own objectives, but that goes for a lot of political bodies over here, too.
Nope, nothing worth responding to. Just some more insane contradictions (Mousavi is not a moderate, but the Ahiatolla endorses Ami-Nejad anyway…wacko clerics…to think otherwise goes beyond stupidity…etc). I wouldn’t mind your contradictions, Terry, but the fact that they continue to make our headlines look like the basket-case babblings of hell-bent militant psychosis, and are creating a conflict with our administration’s stated objectives and global interpretations of our willingness to work openly makes your kind of thinking a little too influential at the moment. I suppose the kids on the streets in Iran might recognize that they’re being used against their own objectives, but that goes for a lot of political bodies over here, too.
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MarkLeavenworthSat, 13 Jun 2009 22:05:02 +0000http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/06/detainee-policy/#comment-367120Gee, Terry, look how fast your response came up to that! Let me look at it, and see if there's anything worth responding to.
Gee, Terry, look how fast your response came up to that! Let me look at it, and see if there’s anything worth responding to.
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MarkLeavenworthSat, 13 Jun 2009 21:43:59 +0000http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2009/06/detainee-policy/#comment-367117Maybe we Americans are too stupid for self-government. Good luck AIPAC, enjoy your victory.
Maybe we Americans are too stupid for self-government. Good luck AIPAC, enjoy your victory.
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